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...service in the dining halls and benefiting local business. Opponents might argue that such a plan, which would require students to wait in line for cashiers, is impractical. But Dartmouth, which has just such a system, has managed to implement it efficiently and without long lines. The present BoardPlus system could be easily extended into dining halls to make payment easy. Others might protest that the program would be biased against students with less money, but the College could simply include a meal allowance in its financial aid packages. Perhaps the most potent possible objection to such a program...

Author: By Daniel P. Robinson | Title: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...your butt cheeks or stuck to your chest with a piece of gum. 6) Bribery could always work: convince the proctor to let you use his or her cellphone. Ladies, bat your eyelashes, guys, flex those guns...or try to win them over with that $5.63 left on your BoardPlus. 7) Remember watching that movie about Helen Keller when you were in grade school? Think back to the lessons of Annie Sullivan and use sign language (don’t lie, you still know how to sign the alphabet) to communicate to passersby. 8) Just walk out. The proctors...

Author: By Nicola C. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 WAYS TO CONTACT THE OUTSIDE WORLD IF HELD INCOMMUNICADO | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...proportion to our use. That means implementing a system in which students swipe their cards as they check out of the servery and a quantity of “meal credits” is deducted from their dining accounts depending on what they choose, much like the use of BoardPlus at the Greenhouse Café. Students should be able to add as much funding to their plans as they want (and perhaps HUDS could set a modest annual minimum...

Author: By Nikhil G. Mathews | Title: Capitalism for Dinner | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

Rebecca J. Hamilton, a joint degree candidate at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) who helped organize the petition said that while she had hoped for BoardPlus donations, she understood the College’s decision...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Undergrads Allowed To Swipe For Darfur | 5/11/2005 | See Source »

...frustrating thing from a student’s perspective is knowing that you or your friends go and buy 15 cans of coke you don’t really want in the last week of semester just to use up your BoardPlus,” Hamilton wrote in an e-mail...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Undergrads Allowed To Swipe For Darfur | 5/11/2005 | See Source »

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